Friday, November 15, 2013

A Shiny App for Experimenting with Dynamic Programming

This post demonstrates the dynamics involved in a susceptible, infected, and recovering (SIR) model previous post for the model. The shiny ui and server code can be found on GitHub.
of dynamic programming.

As a dynamic infection model, I find it particularly satisfying to be able change parameters and observe instantaneously changes in predicted outcomes.

This is a very simple model. However, there
are many interesting models feasible that use this basic structure. A more involved though fundamentally no more complex model might consider a simulation in which there are multiple sub-populations with different contact rates and transmission rates. How might an optimal intervention be positioned in order to minimize total population exposure?